Hi Edward, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Edward <eliasacorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@...> writes: >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:20:54 +0300 >> Kalle Valo <kvalo@...> wrote: >> >The biggest difference is that there's now firmware running on the >> >chip. >> Will the firmware be released as free software at some point? > > Does it matter? The firmware is just a binary logic black box. It's not > likely to even see more than a handful of revisions after the actual > products hit the market. I believe the question was asked as Atheros / Qualcomm has a history of releasing firmware for their devices, i.e. the ar9170 and ar7010 / ar9271 chips, I believe Denis was wondering if this practise would continue. > As long as the driver remains open I don't see any problems with the > open-driver-closed-firmware combination. Intel and Ralink has adopted this > practice to great success, and I don't see any reason why Atheros can't do > the same. I don't believe anyone has problems with things being done this way, we'd just like to know if there's a release scheduled. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
